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Seeing your picture brought back some happy memories.
Cheers for posting that.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
I never really thought it was a good guitar and was always dreaming about getting a better one. Looking back now, I realise that it wasn't the guitar, it was the amp! That amp was absolutely atrocious. The guitar on the other hand was great... I never set it up, because I didn't know how to, but even after years of use it played just as well on the day I sold it as the day I bought it.
The only thing that let it down was the bridge pickup. It sounded a bit weak and noisy. I'm sure with better pickups it would have been a gig worthy instrument.
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Here is the 'dream rig'......
Early 1970s Woolworths Audition electric guitar for £21 brand new. I had to borrow some cash off my Dad because my part time job paid about £0.75p a week in those days to cover everything.
This from a previous thread
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/27965/what-was-your-first-electric-guitar/p2
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He proudly announced to me that he'd traded it at a shop for a bass that someone had given him after their father had died.
I asked him what it was and he said "some weird ass plank of wood called a Wal or summat.. looked like right cheap shit"
It it didn't even burn well
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after a year or so I saved up my low part time wages and bought a japanese fender jaguar I think I was influenced by Kurt Cobain at the time. I think it was a nice guitar but I had no idea what I was doing.
The squier was stuck in the loft for years and dug it out a couple of years back and it was not as fun as I remember. had some serious fretwear on it too
Cheers Chris.
I never met another owner of a Rockster but I know they were sold quite widely in the UK in the early 90s. I also remember fighting hard to fret barre chords on the thing. The mate I played with at school was a lefty and his folks found him a second hand red Hohner with a pointy headstock that was certainly a better guitar than mine. We played Quo together. He was Rossi and I was Parfitt.
There were two other kids at my school whose parents were well off and they had much more swish guitars. They were neither as good as me and my mate but I remember feeling envious that I didn't have a more expensive guitar. One of them regularly took the piss out of my Rockster, comparing it to his more expensive guitar (that he could barely play). I'd be surprised if that particular individual ever took his playing very far. Typical school bully. Better at giving other people a hard time than actually doing anything positive themselves.
I remember carving the shape of a Joshua tree on the front of it when the U2 album of the same name came out,then stripped it completely and eventually skipped it.I kind of wish I still had it really.